Optical disk, optical recorder, optical reproducer, crytocommunication system and program license system

Abstract

PCT No. PCT/JP96/02924 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 9, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 9, 1997 PCT Filed Oct. 8, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/14144 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 17, 1997The operating and other procedures of an optical disk application system of the type for which a network is used are simplified. Optical disks have auxiliary data recording areas, where different IDs for individual disks, and/or cipher keys and/or decoding keys for ciphers are recorded in advance in a factory. By using the IDs to release the soft ciphers, using the cipher keys when sending the ciphers, and using the decoding keys when receiving the ciphers, user authorization procedures are simplified.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. An information recording device for recording information on an optical disk comprising a first recording area and a second recording area, said device comprising: means for recording information using a first modulation method into a first recording area of such an optical disk;   means for reading disk identification information recorded by a second modulation method in a second recording area of such an optical disk;   means for encrypting information using a cipher key and any one such optical disk's unique identification information, into encrypted information unique to that one optical disk; and   wherein said means for recording is capable of recording encrypted information unique to an optical disk in said first recording area of said optical disk.   
     
     
       2. The information recording device of claim 1, wherein said means for recording information uses 8-16 modulation as said first modulation means. 
     
     
       3. The information recording device of claim 1, wherein the means for reading disk identification information includes means for demodulating information modulated using phase method encoded (PE) modulation as said second modulation method. 
     
     
       4. The information recording device of claim 1, wherein said recording means records information using 8-16 modulation as said first modulation method, and said reading means demodulates information modulated using phase encoded (PE) modulation as said second modulation method. 
     
     
       5. The information recording device of claim 1, wherein said disk identification information recorded in said recording area of an optical disk comprises circumferentially arranged multiple stripe patterns each stripe of which extends along a radius of the disk.